In the SALOON with Jake Dean and Adam Dunn

About this episode

Host Jane Messer interviews writer Jake Dean and actor Adam Dunn about the short story 'Apocalypse, then?' and the creative aspects of storytelling.

In our latest 'In the SALOON with…', host Jane Messer talks with writer Jake Dean and actor and film writer Adam Dunn. We take a deep dive into Jake Dean's short story ‘Apocalypse, then?’, performed by Adam Dunn at StorySALOON’s September 2025 live show. Dean speaks about the writing of ‘Apocalypse, then?’, the unique aspects of the short story as a genre, while Dunn discusses acting and preparing for the role, along with what makes a story or line comedic and what it is that apocalypse themed stories have to offer creatively. Jake Dean writes shorts stories and rides waves on Kaurna Country in South Australia. He’s been published widely in Australian journals including Griffith Review, Going Down Swinging, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, Crikey, and Surfing World. Listen to Adam Dunn's reading of ‘Apocalypse, then?’ in Episode 15 of StorySALOON Podcast. Adam Dunn is an actor and filmmaker whose short films having been winning awards in the US and Europe. Dunn is widely known and acclaimed for his roles in Australian and American films and tv roles including The Rising, Play Dirty, The Fall Guy and Elvis. Read ‘Apocalypse, then?’ in Griffith Review…

People in this episode

Guests: Adam Dunn, Jake Dean

Topics covered

• short stories
• apocalypse
• acting
• comedy

Keywords

• StorySALOON
• live show
• Griffith Review

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Griffith Review

Books & works: In the SALOON with Jake, In the SALOON with…, Apocalypse, Going Down Swinging, Kill Your Darlings, The Rising, Play Dirty, The Fall Guy

Places: Kaurna Country, South Australia, US, Europe

More episodes of StorySALOON

• StorySALOON 2025 wrap: Until next season · December 16, 2025 · 2 min
• In the SALOON with Luke Johnson and Michelle Hamadache · December 1, 2025 · 47 min
• 'The Crane Flies' by Michelle Hamadache, read by Charlotte Salusinszky · November 24, 2025 · 27 min
• 'Ferocious Animals', by Luke Johnson, read by Bayley Prendergast · November 17, 2025 · 19 min
• 'Zucchini' written and read by Monikka Eliah · November 14, 2025 · 20 min
• In the SALOON with Ren Wyld and Katie Beckett · November 3, 2025 · 54 min